The English Movies Thread (No Spoilers Please)

This is a discussion on The English Movies Thread (No Spoilers Please) within Shifting gears, part of the Around the Corner category; Originally Posted by Wolfheart
Machete is everything that the teaser (during Planet Terror) promised and more.
Sounds great. From the ...

What's very well known in the western suburbs is not really known so much
to people in the eastern suburbs. Plus I have spent most of the 10 years outside Bombay.

Anyway, I now vaguely recall a friend from the western suburbs pointing out Alfa to me when we were driving by(a few months back) saying it's the place to get any electronic stuff in the western suburbs.

I'm tempted to do a Leslie Nielsen movie marathon in his honour ( he died yesterday ). I loved his comic timing and dead pan dialogue delivery. His line "I am not joking. And don't call me Shirley" from the movie "Airplane" will remain one of my favourite lines ever. Planning to check "Airplane", "Naked Gun" series, "Scary Movie" 3 & 4 and some other of his lesser known movies this week. RIP Leslie Nielsen.

I'm tempted to do a Leslie Nielsen movie marathon in his honour ( he died yesterday ). I loved his comic timing and dead pan dialogue delivery. His line "I am not joking. And don't call me Shirley" from the movie "Airplane" will remain one of my favourite lines ever. Planning to check "Airplane", "Naked Gun" series, "Scary Movie" 3 & 4 and some other of his lesser known movies this week. RIP Leslie Nielsen.

Yes, he was a fine comedian. Except for his Naked Gun series ( which i enjoyed thoroughly) havent seen any other of his movies.

Dead And Loving It?
It was a howlarious movie. I almost fell off my chair laughing watching the scene where he tries to hypnotize Mina, with her maid in the room!

My first experience with a Leslie Nielsen movie was in 1996, when i watched Naked Gun 33 1/3. By the time the oscars scene was done, I was holding my stomach coz it hurt from all the laughing. There were a few scenes i didn't understand back then but later understood when I watched "The Shawshank Redemption", "The Untouchables" etc. The Naked gun movies are fun to watch multiple times coz you keep discovering a lot of funny things and lots of small details that you don't notice in a single viewing.

The movie is about An American Scientist Jeffrey Wigand (Russel Crowe) who gets fired from A Tobacco company from the post of R&D chief because he points it out to them that the usage of a chemical process in making of cigarettes is not correct & will do harm to smokers.

A successful Journalist Lowell Bergman(Al Pacino) approaches him for his help on understanding some scientific document & this is where the trouble begins as the company suspects that he going to leak some information which is not allowed as per the non-disclosure contract signed by him with the company.

The films shows how even the best in the media get manipulated by the powerful Corporates & how a determined scientist(even at the cost of his family) helped to bring in a big change in the way Cigarettes are seen today.

Brilliant performances & crisp Direction is what is this movie worth watching for.